From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: ricardo.b@zmail.pt
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SET_MODULE_OWNER
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:32:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F16C190.3080205@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1058446580.18647.11.camel@ezquiel.nara.homeip.net>
Ricardo Bugalho wrote:
> Hi all,
> most net device drivers have replaced MOD_INC/DEC_USE_COUNT with
> SET_MODULE_OWNER but SET_MODULE_OWNER doesn't do nothing.
> Therefore, those modules (though I can only vouch for 8139too) always
> report 0 use. Some people that had "modprobe -r" in their cronttab found
> it quite annoying.
> I'd guess that there's a good reason for why struct net_device doesn't
> have .owner field and why this happens. Can someone be so kind to point
> it
> out?
struct net_device does have an owner field, and SET_MODULE_OWNER
obviously _does_ do something.
If your interface is up, your net driver's module refcount is greater
than zero.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-17 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-17 12:56 SET_MODULE_OWNER Ricardo Bugalho
2003-07-17 15:32 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-07-17 15:56 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Thomas Schlichter
2003-07-17 16:00 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Jeff Garzik
2003-07-17 19:59 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER David S. Miller
2003-07-17 20:22 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Jeff Garzik
2003-07-17 20:19 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER David S. Miller
2003-07-17 20:48 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Jeff Garzik
2003-07-17 21:34 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER David S. Miller
2003-07-18 9:48 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Roman Zippel
2003-07-18 7:31 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Duncan Sands
2003-07-18 9:05 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Martin Diehl
2003-07-18 10:12 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Duncan Sands
2003-07-18 12:46 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Martin Diehl
2003-07-17 21:36 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Ricardo Bugalho
2003-07-17 21:40 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER David S. Miller
2003-07-17 22:23 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Ricardo Bugalho
2003-07-17 22:16 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER David S. Miller
2003-07-18 0:49 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER Ricardo Bugalho
2003-07-18 2:27 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-07-18 5:26 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER David S. Miller
2003-07-20 2:10 ` SET_MODULE_OWNER James H. Cloos Jr.
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